what about medicine? It's going to be a VERY long time before patient care will be automated. She could start with nursing than eventually advance to being a doctor.
Depending on where you live there aren't always easy options. I feel like I'm in the same situation as described above and there are almost no IT jobs in my area unless I want to work in (and commute to) the big city (Chicago). I don't! I have never worked in an IT shop that had competent management and that often seems to be the problem from what I've heard (from other IT employees).
Didn't some internet provider at one time threaten or attempt to disconnect customers whose computer were suspected to have spyware or a virus infection? I think more internet provider (errr.. high speed internet providers) should take charge and disconnect computers that are (or might be) part of a large botnet. This brings me to the point that like most people don't have a clue how a car functions under the hood, most people also don't know how a computer functions inside its case. So ignorance should not be an excuse for having a computer that's infected with every virus or malware under the sun which is connected to the internet. If a person had a car that kept causing problems on the road than it would eventually find itself towed away or shoved off the road (much like a computer might be forcefully disconnected from it's internet provider). Much like the local police or the local transportation dept. might maintain roads and highways, so should the super information highway be maintained by internet providers and various security experts. Ignorance cannot be an excuse! It certainly doesn't work when you're being arrested for vehicular manslaughter. "But officer, I didn't see that old lady crossing the road..."
To hell with new technologies that add little to no value to the work place and the work place is exactly that! A place where you work and not where you aimlessly surf the web and chat. Hence why I would refuse something such as Web 2.0 to be brought into my IT dept. Of course, I'd welcome a serious business proposal to justify the need.
I sympathize with you. I have worked in IT departments where the people there were next to useless and it pains me that these useless bastards are giving IT folks a bad name.
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what about medicine? It's going to be a VERY long time before patient care will be automated. She could start with nursing than eventually advance to being a doctor.
Depending on where you live there aren't always easy options. I feel like I'm in the same situation as described above and there are almost no IT jobs in my area unless I want to work in (and commute to) the big city (Chicago). I don't! I have never worked in an IT shop that had competent management and that often seems to be the problem from what I've heard (from other IT employees).
Didn't some internet provider at one time threaten or attempt to disconnect customers whose computer were suspected to have spyware or a virus infection? I think more internet provider (errr.. high speed internet providers) should take charge and disconnect computers that are (or might be) part of a large botnet. This brings me to the point that like most people don't have a clue how a car functions under the hood, most people also don't know how a computer functions inside its case. So ignorance should not be an excuse for having a computer that's infected with every virus or malware under the sun which is connected to the internet. If a person had a car that kept causing problems on the road than it would eventually find itself towed away or shoved off the road (much like a computer might be forcefully disconnected from it's internet provider).
Much like the local police or the local transportation dept. might maintain roads and highways, so should the super information highway be maintained by internet providers and various security experts. Ignorance cannot be an excuse! It certainly doesn't work when you're being arrested for vehicular manslaughter. "But officer, I didn't see that old lady crossing the road..."
To hell with new technologies that add little to no value to the work place and the work place is exactly that! A place where you work and not where you aimlessly surf the web and chat. Hence why I would refuse something such as Web 2.0 to be brought into my IT dept. Of course, I'd welcome a serious business proposal to justify the need. I sympathize with you. I have worked in IT departments where the people there were next to useless and it pains me that these useless bastards are giving IT folks a bad name.